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Mon 13th May 2013
Caroline Hudson, who heads up the human resources function at Mater Misericodiae Health Services, will next week deliver a webinar discussing the performance of the hospital's new payroll and rostering system.
Just four staff now look after the payroll and rostering for 7,500 employees across Mater's seven Brisbane hospitals.
Hudson’s journey started around four years ago when it the limitations of the organisation’s legacy systems became apparent.
At the time, approximately twenty staff managed Mater's complex payroll system that included 130...
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Wed 17th April 2013
Around 1,100 people from all over Australia were at last week’s National Rural Health Conference in Adelaide, many of them consumer health advocates, says Penny Hanley, who is the communications manager at the National Rural Health Alliance.
It was an ideal audience for Deborah Smith’s presentation, showcasing the three-year ‘Our Health, Our Community’ project, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
Smith is the Consumer Relationships Manager at the not-for-profit Consumers Health Forum of Australia CHF), the...
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Tue 2nd April 2013
At Wesley Mission’s retirement village in Carlingford, around a dozen residents have trialled a new product called ‘Tapestry,’ designed to integrate various social media platforms on one tablet so that seniors can stay connected to their families.
The trial has been a great success with two-thirds of the trial group’s members signing up after the trial completed and 80 percent reporting they felt more positive about both Tapestry and Wesley Mission following the trial.
The product comprises an Android tablet and software which allows invited...
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Mon 25th February 2013
It’s been a monumental few years for Libby Owen-Jones, who is the Clinical Systems Project Director at Austin Health, one of two public hospitals selected by Victoria’s Department of Health to trial a phased roll-out of eHealth services.
“It’s been a huge challenge, implementing such a massive, transformative change into a health system when hospitals have traditionally been run on paper,” Ms Owen-Jones says.
Since the project went live in June 2011, all radiology orders are fully electronic (end to end), and 95 per cent of pathology orders...
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Wed 20th February 2013
Kathie Melocco has been telling stories for years – and now she’s spreading other people’s stories, via Sydney’s first health bloggers conference, Healthivate, to take place on March 2 at Australian Technology Park, Redfern.
Ms Melocco prefers to call the event a ‘Social Health un-conference’ and says the event will bring influential bloggers together with patient activists, new bloggers and people working in health who are trying to understand this new sphere.
Bloggers wield a strong influence but marketers have not known how to deal with...
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Wed 19th December 2012
The Northern Territory is demonstrating its nation leading ehealth work with a new video showcasing the integration of telehealth consultations with shared electronic health records (EHR) in indigenous communities. Bridging the Digital Divide presents the care journey of a person in a remote community requiring a mixture of primary and secondary care for a serious injury. Making use of the Territory’s My eHealth Record and its “Health eTowns” Telehealth Program, the patient receives treatment from a remote area nurse with real time clinical...
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Wed 12th December 2012
Preventing depression is the aim of a new online-based sleep improvement clinical trial being run by the Black Dog Institute. Will Turner reports.Research shows people with depression and anxiety are over-represented among the 10 percent of Australians who report ongoing problems with insomnia. Yet beyond hearsay, little is known about the the impact a better night’s sleep could have on keeping these disorders from taking root in the first place.The Good Night Study will shed light on this issue by testing how a web-based training program to...
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Wed 28th November 2012
Health networks are changing the direction of primary care in Western Australia with a new approach to policy that changes service coordination and delivery. Will Turner reports.While high quality, integrated primary health care is widely recognised as fundamental to population health improvement, how to achieve it remains a multi-billion dollar question for state and territory governments.In response to the challenge, the WA Department of Health has put together a comprehensive Primary Health Care Strategy based on extensive consultation and...
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Wed 14th November 2012
When the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse cancer centre opens next year, it won’t take long to get up to speed. The facility, located on the grounds of Sydney’s RPA, is expected to treat a quarter of New South Wales’ cancer patients. With that demand in mind, you’d expect the centre’s chief information officer to be focused on developing large scale health technology systems. It turns out the opposite is true for Lifehouse CIO Anne Marie Hadley. Priority number one at the $142 million, 43,5000 square metre facility is the patient. Information...
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Tue 30th October 2012
A range of ehealth initiatives are helping to alleviate the burden of diabetic foot disease in Australia. Will Turner reports.Foot complications affect more diabetics in Australia than any other major health issue besides cardiovascular disease. Ulcers, damaged nerves and blood vessels in the lower limbs can lead to hospitalisation and be life threatening by causing organs to fail and the need to amputate if infections take hold.Yet despite this reality, Australia is doing poorly in providing adequate healthcare for people with foot disease....
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